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majorshatterandhare · 1 year ago

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Shout out to my fiddle/violin teacher for teaching me Shipping Up to Boston, because, as a result, most of what I hear when listening to No Happy Ending is “bosenberry strawberry strawberry, bosenberry strawberry pie, bosenberry strawberry strawberry, strawberry strawberry strawberry pie”

#the mechanisms #ouatis #no happy ending #i dont know if this is gonna make sense to anyone else #i assume that this is a normal method for teaching fiddle but i have no way of knowing #the thing is. at the end the fiddle stops but you can keep hearing it in the accordion because its just the length of the notes #and the bowing of the fiddle A determines the length of the notes but B is very parallel in sound at least to the accordion #idk if any of that made sense idk shit about the accordion #and i used the term ‘fiddle’ throughout here because a fiddle is typically a violin. but afaiaa nastya played a viola.#now the black one they had that didnt have a hollow body (and thus i think is electric. but again idk shit) has five strings which means-#its *both* a viola and violin. usually these combo instruments have a viola body because the lowest string needs the larger body to sound-#good basically. and the highest string can resonate well in the larger body. whereas as the sound of the highest string is great in the-#small body of the violin but the lowest one gets fucked up. however since that instrument doesnt have a hollow body i have no idea how that-#affects it. my assumption would be that even in this form the viola size is more common. since it is in the typical form. and that since-#viola is what nastya played anyway thats what they would have wanted #all of that is to say that i dont know which instrument they were using for performances or the recording of ouatis. but either way.-#fiddles are typically violins and it my understanding that nastya played a viola. therefore i just said fiddle instead of violin or viola-#wow! over explaining my beloved /j #gonna just state again that idk SHIT about the accordion and thats what i think im hearing but i could be wrong

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